we're not saying as a species. this is deja vu news live from berlin germany looks to our love back goal once again today she said to begin her fourth term as chancellor. a live act was expected to be handily reelected today in parliament and then she'll be sworn into office along with her cabinet this long awaited moment will mark the end of a spread so ost election paralysis parliament all of that vote and

a look back at macros twelve years of the country's home so far. i'm dr thomas welcome to our special coverage we have a lot of work ahead of us those the words of germany's only machall earlier this week as she presented the results of coalition talks between her conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. alliance and the social democrats now this hard fought coalition deal clears the way for parliament to elect machall to her fourth term yes or fourth term as chancellor lawmakers are gathered in germany's parliament building right now the rice talked for the vote she needs the support of a majority of all lawmakers that means she has to win the three hundred fifty five votes but macros expected to be handily reelected. the new grand coalition which

includes her conservative party and social democrats has alone three hundred ninety nine seats thank you getting live pictures right now let's go straight to the german bunds argue and our chief political editor michelle and governor as we get these live pictures as the outgoing finance chancellor there both shortly looking out right now. and president of the and he's addressing the assembled assembled in the parliament will be voting shortly afterwards we'll be seeing that swearing in ceremony at the bone the stock today looking at all the i'm ackles unprecedented fourth term as chancellor of germany we're going to our. correspondent right now who's going to be following the proceedings for us on. this this morning at the ally side also be having with us here in the studio

a conversation with our political analyst about what's going to be ahead for the german chancellor and her cabinet not only domestically but internationally a well this coalition has been taking has been taken a long time unprecedented amount of time looking at the a.f.d. right now that's the alternative for germany they are in effect along with the free democrats. the opposition party. that will be questioning the policies of this new government moving forward to social democrats and the conservative alliance forming that pro grand coalition the left party of course will also be. one of the strong. opposition parties in this parliament one party will of course be jobs that's at the top of the agenda for this incoming government and the coalition will also be looking at migration and some of the strains it's putting on of german society at the local level and at

the national level migration was a big issue in the elections that that created this government and will continue to be an issue as the session moves forward following the swearing in of the chancellor today some of the other issues will be in terms of foreign policy the german deployment in afghanistan which has been extended but which is not an controversy on of course today as well the firing of the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson figuring as a real foreign policy challenge to this new german government and of course the threatened trade sanctions as well coming from the united states on exports of steel and aluminum they will also be looming very large for this new government which we're going to say in just a few minutes the parliament of which will be starting its voting process to choose

on. the big question today is of course exactly how the vote will go well for a machall of course it's time to get to work germany's government has been in a holding pattern for a record one hundred seventy one days since last september's federal election and that means the items on the to do list well they have been piling up the log jam was cleared this week and maclin servitors finally signed a coalition agreement with the social democrats take a look at some of the challenges ahead. the moment it became official it took months of painful negotiations to get to this point then with one stroke of the pen this week chancellor merkel find the starting gun for the new coalition to start work on its long political to do list first there's europe. french president manuel mccall wants to work with germany on ambitious e.u. reforms but there may be trouble ahead while germany agrees in principle to his

plans for a new e.u. finance minister merkel conservatives are strongly opposed to the eurozone have a good same budget. and if that doesn't keep the german government busy enough in europe there's always brights it time's running out for a deal with the u.k. due to leave the bloc in just over a year's time. next up u.s. german relations u.s. president donald trump has unnerved germany by raising the prospect of a trade war with europe his threatened tariffs on steel and aluminum could hit the german economy hard merkel wants talks about managing transamerica first ambitions may prove tricky. then this defense germany signed up to be part of a new e.u. defense union which could pave the way to form any european army but first the german armed forces are in need of modernization a new report has found that facing dramatic personnel and equipment shortages. and

that is domestic concerns germany is lacking behind when it comes to digitalisation the coalition is promising to invest billions on a national broadband upgrade by twenty twenty five tackling air pollution is another high priority german cities have won the right to g.'s bans on the once polluting diesel cars but what will that mean for germany's all important auto industry. finally refugee policy. possibly one of the most contentious issues facing the new coalition after the success of the far right a.f.d. party and last year's election expect germany to get tougher on immigration the coalition's promise to keep the annual intake of new asylum seekers below two hundred twenty thousand. there's been a major cabinet shakeup in the new coalition only two ministers from the previous government remain in the same post and with a vast list of issues to address they won't have long to ease themselves into the

new roles. ok let's go back now live to the german bundestag i'm joined by our chief political editor michelle or governor michelle of what to expect to happen where you are this morning can you walk us through what's going to proceed there. well the proceedings of just start of this just going through the list of those who are going to vote we have seven hundred nine m.p.'s in the german and that means basically that there needs to be of authority of three hundred fifty five votes for german chancellor angela merkel to be voted into a fourth term in office there's a market difference to normal majorities it's actually the number of members that counts here so we firmly expect her to be reelected the so-called grand coalition of social democrats and german chancellor angela merkel's conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. union have forty four votes more than they would absolutely need we don't really

expect much of an undercover rebellion because we of course know that the social democrats are having a very hard time to find back to the position where they would support america once again becoming chancellor but after this very long process of almost six months the longest in german modern history to actually form a government all parties are bruised and battered from this process so once chances elected she goes over to the german federal president's residence here in berlin and is basically appointed by him then comes back and then goes back once again with the ministers and but she's sworn in here in the bundestag around noon today. like to ask you michelle you mentioned here there were expecting a real lection without any questions but what is important is the number of votes

defections that are possible that you mentioned especially from the social democrats so what is important in terms of the number of votes today or. as a as a kind of whether sawing of this upcoming new administration. well she needs three hundred fifty five votes anything below that that would really cause a complete upset here in the bonus target and leave other options open of actually putting up other candidates by the german parliament that would be a possibility we would see if we do not see anything much happening here today except a huge upset and shocked once again to the german political system. all sides are very much aware despite the debates in the social democrats upon whom of course the focus is because there was a grassroots vote they came out in favor of supporting and i'm going to back up

again but there was at least one third of the grassroots and even more delegates at party conference who were absolutely sternly against going into yet another coalition so that could lead one to believe that frankly there would be some kind of undercover upsets that would suddenly shine through once it actually comes to the voting process at the same time forty four votes is really not that wide margin for a larger group to say they will not support this and the democrats really found what i think really found a new strength in actually having gone through this process of debating this in a party rift so anything basically it's inconceivable at this point time that she would be reelected ok and that voting is now under way your look. you know some of the a parliamentarian is behind you they're casting their votes michel acuff there for now thanks very much we're going to get the european perspective now the election

to office for all americans very important in the european capital brussels we're going to strasburg where the european parliament meets in our correspondent there max hoffman all eyes on berlin where you are right now max. all eyes on berlin we've talked to a number of parliamentarians over the days and i can tell you across the spectrum everybody is happy that there is a new german government but expectations very large the someone here who knows exactly what he's talking about because he's not only the head of the european peoples party month would be a welcome european peoples party of course the party where. is also a part of he was part of the negotiation of the coalition to go she has been so. excited about this day about this new coalition absolutely because it's what do you say to already the end of one period of instability of uncertainty in people's needs now stability that is what is needed and the expectations are really really

big because we've talked to a number of people who are not another grand coalition they would have preferred for example a coalition with the greens and the liberals and everything it seemed like there was no momentum for this coalition has this changed over the last you know i think for a european point of view we have to be absolutely yeah that's a new coalition agreement this is a grand coalition is an absolutely pro european one the first chapter is about the european union is a very positive one also thanks to modern shows i have to say he was also very keen on this very strong on this and the coalition talks missile liberals for example is lynn not so let me say a promising lead me to got to european issues that's why i think europe can be very happy with this coalition agreement it's a clear on the to the speech of mccraw he want to go forward speaking of my call it seems like it appears like if she's elected today it was just very likely i must add will visit my call in paris on friday probably what do the two need to talk

about concerning europe the top priority for two thousand and eighteen full the european union is migration on the economic side when we speak about euro we did already a lot we have two point five percent growth rate in the european union the lowest unemployment rate since ten years so we are back economically that spieth. the euro thing is important but not let me say don't mean indian in two thousand and eight and really really big problem is the migration thing they'd be experience you need to lean the elections in czech republic in the elections it's a dominating issue in the complains that's my we have to solve it and that means strong border control tough border control and stop illegal migration and on the other hand solidarity inside of the opinion thank you very much mr avila both so you can see back in berlin we have people who are very happy with this new consolation very excited about a fourth term but i'm going to back up now back to you ok max well it's like there are some high expectations there on a number of fronts especially if you talk about paris and deeper e.u. integration but aren't there concerns in europe right now that germany and this new

administration could mainly be busy with domestic affairs it's hard to say because in the coalition treaty you have a huge chapter which was fairly new about the european union and about europe but if you look at the text it's unclear how exactly they're going to address those issues and is in the last days have shown that there are some gaps between the french president among whom i call and the german chancellor angela merkel for example concerning the reform of the euro zone my call once a known euro zone budget he wants a euro zone finance minister we don't have that here in the e.u. yet and we know that going to battle over the years has been very skeptical of something like that and although the two really want to restart the french german engine and always make a show of unity each time they get together this is now the first time they really have to hash out what the actually want to do have to find a compromise and we'll see if this unity holds ok in

a month of aver that was talking about an emphasis on migration and stopping illegal immigration as he put it do you see the e.u. working with a macro on what is a very important issue as well for german voters. it's a very important issue i would say for most voters in most countries in the european union the european union politicians the institutions have tried to identify topics in the last well you could say year and a half where they really can all agree on now migration stopping migration stopping illegal migration into the european union is something everybody can agree on whether the countries are in the east or the west the problem is redistributing migrants that have already arrived in the european union this might be the most contentious issue in the european union so on the one hand they're all focusing on what they can agree on what month would be able just said securing the outer

borders controlling the whole flow of migration but on the other side they need to find that solution of what to do with the migrants once they arrive huge rift between east and between the west and we really don't see any solution for that right now but they have said that they want to find a solution until the beginning of the summer but most here in strasbourg also in brussels say this is going to be a really tough cookie. for now thanks very much for all of that from stasis. and for full coverage and analysis of today's events were here in the studio with my colleague nina hasa from good of you politics in venice on a veteran political correspondent here blood good morning to both of you molly you know as we heard that there are so many challenges facing on a macro on the diplomatic front in brussels but here at home as well there's the same issues a lot of way they're hooked together with the team on the machall nina if we could start with you is put together in her cabinet is she and her cabinet up to the

challenges ahead. what we do know for sure is that it is probably going to be her last time in office and they has been a lot of pressure on uncle a makeover to show that she's willing to prepare for some sort of sign of renewal she has brought in fresh faces and she's relying on some experienced people in the cabinet so that's a new mixture of people some with experience and some without experience frankly so this will only show in a couple of months time whether that will play out but it was needed as a sign to hope policy members that she takes this a call for more up for renewal of the party seriously ok then what do you think is on a limb ackles team up to the task some of them we just heard there from max often migration redistribution of migrants looking at a you finance minister something germany in the c.d.u. has balked at for years while the truth is we have to wait and see it's very hard

to predict what will happen in these uncertain times in the next six months of twelve months or whatever for you agreed that this will be the last term of the amount go i think that's a clear message and by the way i look at her and we don't even know when the next time the cameras catching her you would see an interesting picture and interesting fashion statement by the way yeah she comes today in the white jacket. and i was wondering what kind of kind of signal is she's sending me because every time you mention yes she wears black and to hear she is new beginnings perhaps maybe i am wondering what. she was thinking when she put on this white jacket this morning it's not really that important but an interesting observation anyway so yeah i mean we see a cabinet that is creative let's call it a creative mixture of old and new faces and some of them are experienced specially

the top people like america like austin. newman this minister of the interior and also of course was tense you know all of. those three of very experienced and like the minister of defense on the line old saw has been in office for ages and different functions and other people in the cabinet some fresh faces and that will be an interesting mixture of one of the more experienced ones there is also yes get milk from. absolutely have to have sister posh he has to be that old and new development minister and he's already said that one of his priorities is going to make sure that people don't even have a reason to leave so many development policy will focus strongly on

trying to prevent migration flows addressing their cause and so on all this where it was so important for the local people you know when you look at this cabinet though it has been described as dependable but boring there's no real bright lights like those gong show blows leaving the former finance minister if you think back to really political superstars like oscar fisher is a boring and but dependable cap and. it's an interesting stereotype for the time being i mean as. we have some new fresh faces in spawn of yours leave. the crumbs of to voice and the new cabinet will have to see how that will play out then you have to flee who of course is very interesting new phase very experienced on the local level and we have father so again you refuse almost to predict that this will be a boring government and whatever government it is

a good mixture of old and new and i think this is the message ok what it is a government is a government i mean germany should be happy with that after six months of actual deliverance or that is her goal she wanted a coalition and she delivered it well there are options on the table after all you know we could have seen fresh elections after this long time of trying to find coalition partners fresh elections minority government would have been option but i'm going back was priority was clearly to have a stable coalition government and she's still of it ok don't we have to say of course u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson being fired his replacement is going to be head of the cia bearup barrow up a rather and the question is can the new five foreign minister i call mass the former justice minister is he up to the task of of facing the new personalities and the uncertainty in the trumpet ministration i think i spoke to a senior c.d.u. politician to the chairman of the foreign affairs committee about what can you say

and i asked him about. and i spoke to a young hot in of the city you member as well i asked him about his qualities and there is a feeling that high commodity is somebody who's easily underestimated he's very soul in height he's got the tallest and he was a pretty unsuccessful regional politician before he got drawn on to the berlin stage and many people are saying that he's delivered as a. justice minister does it justice minister and the previous government and he surprised many people because he is willing to actually risk conflict he challenged people like. on several occasions so many people are saying don't underestimate the new foreign minister ok now he's going to dealing with peo in the united states lavrov in moscow then of what you said you know well while it is very important to have a good foreign minister when it comes to the real hot topics then nobody is in charge

all these important topics europe the relationship to russia to the united states all that will be in the hands of merkel and she will be the player and of course the biggest challenge right now is the trade war with the united states and how they will go about it and made it very clear on monday during her extended press conference that she wants to go easy into this she wants to talk and not fight that she made that very clear that you know she does not want a real war but wants to give talks a chance and then of course the options on the table table's good to call him direct but this is the most important challenge right now like remind our viewers we're getting live images right now from the right start the german parliament building as the bundestag parliamentarians give the place their votes there in the

urn that will determine whether all the back oh and by what margin is what we're really looking at will be reelected today and there's the head of the a if the right there who's talking to a fellow party member there the votes going in from the parliamentarians. we've been talking about the foreign minister and some of the challenges ahead and how germany wants to avoid any. kind of trade war with the united states that is of course very important to german voters the voters who put this government in place although albeit by a thin margin so it's taken very long and we thought we'd go out and onto the streets and find out what the voters here in berlin every day germans what they expect from a mac. ols new term in office from a machall four point zero let's take a look at that. on

staff. ok we want to go to the. sound bytes in a little bit and we're looking at the live images from the bundestag dows the parliament area cast the vote we just looked at the secretary of culture there we're now looking at. a leading. politician up i'm on a list of i'm on there what is the s.t.d. as a junior coalition partner vanna what do they want to bring to this coalition what's going to be their main emphasis well. contract is very clear on this they're spreading a lot of goodness. you know to the general population. number of important things in the core of the lucian contract that really important to the social democrats the kind of push that's true that's true and i don't

think that there was much resistance on the part of uncle americal when it came to this so what we see is a report titian of grand coalitions who are very much leaning to let's say a left of center when it comes to to d.c. elements and this is what we have to expect and that is my democrats. to have lead happy with the result and so was by the way. only just heard of reserve. i mean the name of the says it all it's a christian social union and they have federal strong roots and. in the working class and of area and toss they go for said on monday we are the party of the little people which is so that. he is very close to the social democrats and he made that very clear and this is what you have to expect ok now

you have the social democrats at the base especially from the youth voters immense pull to the left. is that going to affect this coalition and where it's headed when you look at the pressure from the left wing of the social democrats you know what do you think yes that was a tremendously big campaign led by of course the leader of young socialist kevin cannot who was facing opposed to joining this next edition of a circle grand coalition with uncle america i mean you have to say that those young people in the s.p.d. they just said we have lost our profile and we were punished for it we were punished for always governing together with uncle americal voters clearly showed us that we don't want to be in this government so we need to take those voices seriously and we need to renew this party i think the s.p.d. is going to have a new party need in april probably the first woman in power and. she comes from

the left wing of the social democrats people like martin short nobody talks about much in shorts and immobilised just sort of on the benches over game over after not even a year that he was also mind or our viewers was the social democrat candidate for chancellor now he's in the hands of the chairman of the s.p.d. now he's a parliamentarian and he went from hero to zero as some people cope with it and he's now a just an ordinary member of the board to stark's i do believe that there are also things happening with india speaking party with under this we're going to see like i said the first woman francisco gif i who is from the district of noise current here in berlin which is a district with a very high level of migrants she's very experienced and extremely young and from east germany so lots of new faces that as well ok now as of yesterday as you mentioned with its leadership is going to be shifting to the left there's concerns in the major coalition partners the c.d.u.

that they'll be polled left as well now yesterday's space a historically low ratings. fifteen percent you think about the ratings of forty percent back to the ninety's will the c.d.u. be moving to the left in party with the s.t.d. . well i mean that has to be the trick they have to be attractive to the conservatives within the party and therefore they have this new figurehead. a chance or candidate one. i mean we. i mean you said might be a boring cabinet but also would there be can put in some excitement there because of course as a set the figurehead of the conservatives and in that camp maybe unhopeful for a rifle of a rival. for. of course she knows that and then on the other hand we have. a common boa the new general secretary was also

called not a rival by the potential successor and then they have. all the kind of just maybe a potential successor for america and all the all that attends you that this will be the last term full on glum outgo but she has managed to groove behind her at least three. politicians who might be a potential successor only to what the message is is there this is the last term for. the appointment is what thirty nine years old example was a ruby a rejuvenating of the cia or the same stowing on in the s.t.d. with that pressure from from the used base. nina has the s.p.d. has the c.d.u. succeeded these two parties the new coalition and rejuvenating themselves with some

new appointments at the cabinet level. the process is far from over i think it's only just begun i think where. we've entered this transition period where for years germany has been associated with stability economic stability and with angola machall as chancellor and those days will come to an end and so we're seeing this transition many people within the city you have criticised uncle america for allegedly pushing her party for too much to the left and so these what i find interesting about this coalition deal is that these three parties have actually in included a review clause so after two years they will go back to the table and look at whether or not it's working what they're doing because both parties especially the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. have to rejuvenate themselves they have to win back to support at the same time they have to show unity as a government so that's going to equate to trying to square the circle ok you know

they're in a live fire range basically they're not doing this without opposition there's two parties looking to take advantage of any weaknesses they'll be showing any failure there for the four in total but i'm talking about on the fringes we have on the fringes you could say on the outside right now the if the the alternative for germany the country's third largest political party an anti migration and he is long platform they'll be looking for a weakening of the conservative profile which is c.d.u. to win voters from that camp while on the left we have the left party the former communist p.d.s. they'll be looking for a left wing type of populism with a very very popular leader that they have as well. well that's their own i mean if the now is strong the opposition party whether we like that or not i mean they're reapers and about thirteen percent of the vote us which is not

big time but it's remarkable success no daughter of yours in five years of existence of this for you know of course i mean and they have strong representation in and local governments and state governments. and state polman is actually. nowhere in the government yet we have to stress that and i don't see. a time soon but you never know on the state level just we don't know but anyway they they will be and this that we will we will. you know will hunt them will hunt them as i think out on the party leader who will hunt them exactly this is what they said and this is what all of this see their old to the os the tough questions which in a way is good in a democracy to a degree i mean they are very populist and they will ask the populace that question

and the government will have to answer or hundred of course be very important in the field of migration and then we see a very substantial change ok we're going to talk more about this we're getting these live pictures from the underside of the voting has just ended we're going to the bundestag right now and our correspondent there michelle acuff they're looking at the chancellor right now and binder results on the line the defense minister theirs will functionally like and let's bring in michelle acuff there at the bundestag if we couldn't ask her what we know so far about the vote and how it's going i'm michelle i can you bring us up to date place. yes absolutely well you can probably see behind me what looks like very small shelves that well they've been closed so that's where the m.p.'s just a while ago picked up their voting cards they are now all inside that ballot box that now will be taken outside to be counted there's seven hundred nine m.p.'s in the german born this time and america needs three hundred fifty five votes to be elected and as we said we expect that to go smooth sailing because there are forty

four more votes between her conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. coalition under social democrats then she absolutely needs having said that those past months have not been smooth sailing we all remember we reported on that this is the democrats had a very hard time breaking their own promises of not going back into another so-called grand coalition not german chancellor merkel into yet another term in office now the mood here is very much pretty matter of fact i would say there's nothing really festive about that so much i'd say that the more festive occasion really was the signing of the marriage agreement of this loveless marriage as the social democrat leader would have put it here on monday where finally there was a signature and this one hundred seventy seven page contract that will be the basis for these i would say coming for years but there's only just over three and a half years left after the longest process in germany's modern history to actually

forming a government that's once we see that happen just a few minutes i can almost say from now. earlier in talking about them here in the studio how are they figuring in this notice is the first time a far right party has been in the german parliament since the treatment of the new german republican late one nine hundred forty s. . yes and they're actually a great part of the upset that led to this they lead to a splintering of the political landscape i mean just in contrast to let's just compare the last so-called grand coalition that says the democrats and the city you had seventy eighty percent of the vote in the jim bonus talk they basically pushed through whatever they wanted and now that's gone down to just under sixty and that is a completely new playing field we've seen much more heated debates more passionate debates depending on which way you want to see it in those first months of the

german buddhist talk actually being in existence you mentioned earlier that the f.t. said they would basically hunt i'm going to mark i mean one of the key campaigns was most back machall has to go they looked like they got pretty close to that at a certain point when it became so uncertain whether under the makah would be able to put together a coalition at all after after all her first attempt failed together with the free democrats and the green party which really would have marked a completely new to party here in germany it would have been a completely new fresh set up now the f.d.a. is expected to go on the campaign message that they have throughout that there is a political elite and in. going to makkah once again becoming tons of remaining chances they they basically say it's same old same old and this is something the grand coalition will have to prove that if we show it to somebody to jump in there we're looking right now he is the cd you are going to start we're talking about

earlier being discussed as a possible chance or themselves there's been somewhat of a sober tory mood we've been seeing there parts of the bundestag this morning there is general it's the mare from the greens their main spokesman right now in fact is their opposition with the failed coalition agreement talks between the greens and the liberal party the democrats and the. the service from chancellor merkel the went down and resulted in the current talks that led to the grand coalition and the historically long a period of time that germany has been without a coalition government there is the could be one of the leaders of the democrats right there the ones. yes that sent those down in flames and led to the talks too with the social democrats that martin scholz the then candidate for chancellor did not want to see happen let's go back to michelle a how long is it

going to take you think of michelle it's all we know what's going to happen with a vote. well how long is a piece of string i would expect us to know for the coming next half hour. once elected certainly has an appointment with the german president to be a. signed into office then she has will swear the oath here in the bonus track so she's got quite a bit of shuffling back and forth still to do but between nine and eleven is the window central european time for all this to take place at eleven she's expected. here with this seat of the german federal president to really put onto paper her fourth term in office so we still have this counting process going on but it's interesting that you mentioned spawn you singled him out earlier he will become the health minister here he's one of the few figures in your own party who is not afraid of challenging the german chancellor on stage he basically forced his way

into the party leadership really challenging party conference and actually being voted into that the upper echelons of his own party he's seen as a symbol for change he's also seen as somebody who injects once again the idea of conservatism into the seed use a lot of hopes resting on him at the same time appointed and if it's come on by one known as a k k party secretary-general and she's lost what she wants to herself see as a process of renewal within her own c.d.u. party this is widely seen as really quite strike of genius in terms of securing her own power and at the same time launching a process that could potentially lead to our own succession i mean there's no expectation really that she would stand yet another term this kind of whoever you ask there's a common expectation that this will be her last term in office and see do you actually manage to stabilize itself i'm going to machall to stabilize her own power

by allowing critics into her in a circle which she simply has not done in the past in the past. if you were disloyal he would not see yourself in a german cabinet with german chancellor merkel at the top ok thanks for now michel we're going to go back now. our correspondent there max austin and i'm actually been talking to some other people there where you are about what's happening in berlin today and what they've been saying well you have to keep in mind that berlin is not the only place where you have politicians that were involved in the various coalition talks with the chancellor over the months we also have the european parliamentarians here including for example that have been before who is a member of the german green party and he was involved in the first coalition talk that failed i know there was a lot of disappointment back then that it didn't work out are you still disappointed you still regret it didn't work out that the greens are now part of the government well that it's not so much you should always looking back of course

i would. want to see another alternative so-called to make a coalition would have been better for the country certainly for us and i would say also for the chancellor but it wasn't to be so. i have to still wish our success because we need it and europe needs a german government that knows where to go what do you expect for a fourth term does that she have energy does she have the backing to get things done in yours. i believe that european policy on foreign policy and security policy will be paramount in her fourth term. i saw in the negotiations that we have that she has a clear intention to move and that's the rection i think it's fair and safe to say that and it's needed because the major challenges come from my environment come from the crises that we see on all our borders like what

like the russian induced crises in ukraine or. the game they play in syria. or are the challenges that come across the atlantic ocean or the newly assertive overly assertive chinese policy so i think this new german government with an unexperienced foreign minister has a lot of international challenges on its hand do you think they have what it takes because you just mentioned the german foreign minister you just mentioned the challenges but do you believe that mexico and this government have what it takes to surmount these problems while there's a an old german saying if the lord gives you a high office he also gives you the good sense to be competent and to accomplish what you have to i'm not sure we can rely on that alone but certainly as an

opposition party he will try to help governing because an opposition that sets the right framework asks the right questions voices the right criticism can help governing the country more effectively it's not about i'm going to america herself a little bit i mean you were there in the coalition talks at least partly in the first coalition talks were you impressed by her by how she gets these things done by her stomach. look i wander how she manages in her twelfth year to still be underestimated. but that's a great that was a great surprise for me for this is mr clinton from the liberals he grossly underestimated her and she showed sense that she can still surprise the country so i think we shouldn't contre out. clearly if she

has to grapple with a new situation and running a government that we call a grand coalition but that is the smallest grand coalition ever will certainly not be easy and i think that the internal divisions. within her own party are growing and they're showing and that will also be a new difficulty off which i'm not sure how long she can master it but certainly she is still the strongest political leader sitting around the cabinet table so i. think we have to wish her well thank you and her pretty go up a very much for this and of course she hasn't a different strong leader nowadays in the european union which would be the french president in one room across but i think what we have to keep at least from talking to another think of it is that her biggest feat so far was to still be underestimated. thanks thanks so much to you there in strasburg and to run out

because of the greens as well thanks very much to both of you write out let it go for saying there of the lord gives you an office he's going to give you the wisdom tooth to fill all of its obligations as well we're looking at the foreign policy challenges coming from as you go from mention there russia the u.s. and china you also mention a man we've been talking about michael mast what do you think is this the best possible coalition rhyno it to go for want of the jamaica coalition including his party the free democrats they've been rejuvenated under lender is this the best possible coalition for germany looking at the alternative which would have been the free democrats in the greens when it comes to europe it's the best thing that you can get because there's broad agreement between those of democrats and the christian democrats to support the european project. we have to see what it means when it comes to the details and it will not go goes to ransom for on friday what

the real signal will be i would be very much surprised if she would agree to everything that mccrone as to say i have my doubts and she made some indications here but but anyway for europe it's very good to have a grand coalition when it comes to russia that will be to be the interesting point because the social democrats kind of tend to be more or forgiving let's put it this way when it comes to russia open it comes to ukraine when it comes to crimea so that will be very interesting to see the but overall i think when it comes to foreign policy it's very good to have this grand coalition and there are a lot of unity ok a lot of unity they're going to be meeting a strong partner when you look at the difficulties with russia and the united states and china as a full partner and turkey and in the background yeah traditional

a german partner involved right now in a possible trade dispute along with the united states with berlin is france now the partner by default basically for germany you know well. new foreign minister is going to go to france straightaway schedules ago today as this is a very very clear sign that the the german government is under that they for under stood at the french have stretched out their hands and that they're desperately waiting for the jones to get a move on and to help reinvigorate this european idea and they will have to watch together like you say with britain opting out of the european union and with what's happening in eastern europe as well there is tremendous pressure that there is unity between several. eastern european central eastern european countries who firmly opposed to immigration. say so quite clearly so they will have to do that

the visit you're talking about and which has been drawn joined by austria now as well backing them up i want to pick up the rats a topic van if i could you know there's all this talk about solidarity in the importance of reinvigorating the european project but what the french want is for germany to back up french debt that's not a very popular idea the german voters is a new deal not happen it's a simple as that i mean it's already more or less clear that some demands that the president has made will not be met by this new grand coalition and not buy on the amount for example if the finance minister for the european union nobody talks about that anymore here in berlin. budget for for the european union that also will probably not happen and a transfer union that is what the southern europe really wants from bill and also

not been i dead to predict this today. ok what do you think you know none of these things are going to happen what will france be looking for then from germany. well from a plea to restart this french german engine just essentially also means to have a plan for the future so that they european union is under such existential threat that france needs to many to commit to the very idea off they come and european union just how they will manage to do that without giving france like a vendor has just said without giving fronts what they what they want but they have no choice if they want to keep the european union existing then they will have to come up with a plan with some sort of a vision with some sort of a project that they can push forward the question is where's that going to be they're going to make no mileage as you mentioned euro zone debt the bailouts for

countries like greece spain very unpopular still with the german voters where is there room to move forward great with perhaps migration will be the dominant topic by the way and. to look at what's happening in berlin in this respect with this new grand coalition the so-called come and go to of the cultural or will come for refugees for migrants in germany is over a lot of people have not realized that outside of germany but this is a very very very clear signal especially today even though the social democrats have made it very clear over the past two three days that they. are in the same camp you have at the christian democrats so this is something that also will have will play a big role in europe and this is what you have to look at. if you look at where

we're going to talk more about this in just a second you know i understand from our directors that the vote has just been counted let's pick up migration when we come back very prominently in the election and moving ahead for this new coalitions well not only domestically but internationally let's go live now to these images of the bundestag where the vote has been counted we're waiting for the numbers to come through. we have the. chancellor there the president of the gong of on detroit law addressing jamie dimon six minutes my annoyance a he one six hundred ninety two. good against him and six wind up after an hour. meet ya the guy who don't feel unsafe sick. noid. need me i had front men distance for infants and sixty men i'll. try and safety i've said this is it says the

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ok there is congratulating the voice of both young ferguson gradually got the chance for christian winner there she just said hello to him he was the man who rejected the coalition and there is her former challenger martin showed shaking now parliamentary. crean leader as well also regretting no doubt that the negotiations didn't go his party's way elam akhil their receiving congratulations from the parliamentary president the president of parliament both who wished her god's blessing in the efforts ahead we're going to go a little bit to live to our correspondent in the bundestag let's rejoin our our guests here in the studio as only machall receives the congratulations of cabinet

members and other leading parliamentarians at the bundestag. there is a look at the personalities there that's the greens now the left party. congratulating the chancellor as well quite a few hands to shake today you know what did you make of the applause there was some yells of cheers in the background there's a kind of warm and. police chamber that you expected. i thought it was interesting that. that was quite a long applause for her some of the hunch shakes that we've seen of a very very sots like that but the left wing politicians are vying for example that the expected what i think this figure three hundred sixty four means is that they did decide to go with it i mean the discussions whether or not they wanted to have uncle america was so drawn out and they were all discussed orally this question was

discussed thoroughly in recent months and so today with three hundred sixty four yes votes until america can really say that she got a stable job it's a good result there's only you seen a lot of these parliamentary votes haven't you how does this one strike you. well i have made my mom. three hundred sixty four is enough to signal to the outside world is germany finally has an old new chancellor and her name is not surprisingly magical this is the most important thing we have to figure the out and i'm sure our colleague in the palm and has already done that how many votes did not. how many people in her own camp did not vote for on the machall that's because it's going to be an important number yeah that will be an important number and it will i'm sure we'll know that and in a few moments but anyway it's enough it's

a tight wote i mean you have a majority oh forty four votes and no we have three hundred sixty four anyway the signal again is we have a new chancellor and we will have a new government finally in what i sense it today is a big sigh of relief in the parliament does this i did not hear of a big. explosion of applause or movement did not happen what what i see here and we see a lot of people shaking their hands you know the new chance right now white jackets and all this standing out here today and i think that voice the thought that she had when she put on this ticket to here i am your i am. i'm still here a sign of hope whatever continuity all that comes into play today ok we're going to break down the numbers now see what kind of majority this is let's go back to the

bundestag live where with michelle acuff there there michelle i can you break down the numbers for us. yes the german chancellor was going to makkah was reelected with three hundred sixty four votes that's nine more than she absolutely needed there were nine extensions she could have and some probably feel should have had forty four more votes than she needed so. it clearly was enough but not absolutely everybody was on deck in her so-called grand coalition so one might be able to suspect that less a so within their own party but that some social democrats probably just simply couldn't bring it over their voting cards to in the end support yet another term of the social democrats helping america remain german chancellor so that's the result here clearly a sense of relief there was a big round of applause and with an opposition i just spoke to the

party leader as well at least vital really set on giving this ground coalition a hard time and they might have a slightly harder time than last time around after all now they have under sixty percent in the bonus talk last time it was closer to eighty percent which just shows that yes there was they won the elections but those policy but this was not a victory by in any terms ok you want to talk about that a bit and remind our viewers what we're getting live images from the bundesliga german chancellor they're graduating many of the over seven hundred parliamentarians who. and being congratulated. for being elected by the parliament there giving her their best wishes and i'm sure there's all xander galland coming to her right now a very very short breviary did not of the head from the leader of the alternative

from germany there let's go back to. no handshake just a nod. unusual. in the parliament but it kind of underscores the adversarial approach between the two parties and between the chancellor and the and it's poles as well i'm michelle of we're talking about the discrepancy between the possible majority of votes and the actual votes cast for all america today what does that mean in terms of the signal from her coalition in terms of what type of backing the chancellor has. well basically it was it's closer than it ever was but it was enough and i think when you talk to the german chancellor you always do talk to the scientists to says the result really counts and this is now the outcome it's solid it wasn't by one or two votes but it clearly

is also a signal of what we saw in the lead up to this and really throughout this process of her first failed attempt and then the second attempt at forming a government that she no longer is this leading figure this unquestioned leading figure also within her own party we got that sense very clearly we saw her appointing a young spawn into her cabinet one of her faces critics so clearly these are changing times and i can also bring in now when the youngest m.p.'s in the bahamas to i'm to have from the christian democrats hello that we were just talking about how close this vote was in the end the germans had to received nine more votes and she absolutely needed what do you read into this well i think the election is not such a good. result the result is not so good just because of the vote of the social democrats well it's a secret vote but we can say who was the one who hasn't voted for angela merkel but

i think there is a lot of. dissatisfaction in the field of the social democrats we talked a lot in our christian democratic party about results of the election and of course there are and there is not everybody is so happy with the situation but we stand behind angela merkel and so i think the christian democrats has voted for a gale americal closely now you're not just one of the youngest m.p.'s you're also already a legend within your own party for holding the alternative for germany at bay in your own constituency which is near angle i'm ackles constituency and is. this is what are we seeing here are we seeing the chancellor opening up to critics more with the end spawn being more willing to to really think about succession and potentially also inject more conservatives an interim party again as many are. well i think it's absolutely necessary that we integrate conservative party political

ends into our party and on and also i for myself we stand behind uncle america for this election and i think it's important that we act as a team and this is a central point for us but yes you pointed out the attorney to for doj and. new party in our future and of course we have to discuss with them and it's henchoz that we don't ignore all of them. and it's more important that we search a discussion with them and that we show what is the better points for us now and what has become almost legendary now is that. the day after this election victory which really wasn't a victory it also was a defeat in a sense for the cd you said she didn't really see what to do differently you did things differently in your own constituency how different is this government and yet again chance i'm not going to be well i think it is this. angle america that

she didn't know what she could make better was very short answer of cause we discussed a lot about the things that we must do better we have to be more open in discussions and we have to more and we must make more discussions with a d. and that's an essential point and i think the point is that we must show really clear what are our positions and there is no point to search only the middle field of politics we have to say yes the c.d.u. is a conservative party and we point out very clear ok mr hunter thank you very much for that a very young voice from the c.d.u. there. and we'll leave you with that thank you so much and we'll just lead on to potentially. oh right ok well we're hoping to get a minister here in a minute minutes but i'll get back to you once we get that ok michele if you could if you could say there just for a second we understand the chasseur has now left the building she's on her way to

bellevue palace and president and meyer to be sworn in that's the procedures we'll be back later in the business today. what what do you think about about this vote you were talking about it with i think is the youngest parliamentarian there. five hours ok yeah michelle has. yes. i don't really mean now to be in a bali. cut only nobody is with me she's the current yeah family minister. we have a we have a problem here with the line ok i'm forty we have from with the line i'll just have with me now the future justice minister here in germany mrs bali you also have british citizenship so clearly

a very international approach to how is this government going to feel different particular the social democrat party that had such a hard time finding back into the so-called grand coalition where the whole setting of the parliament is different now because we have far more parties in the parliament and the right wing party is is a challenge for all of us. and the coalition is smaller than it was the last time. but the european approach is more important this time we've put it right in the front of the of the coalition treaty and we take that very seriously that we have a big european responsibility at the moment especially in terms of fact you mentioning a europe so how will this response from the german government look like now towards a man whom i call the french president is still really waiting for a reply on his grand vision will that now be war than the handshake that they could expect from german chancellor merkel will be more of a woman brace with the social democrats being. well it's really weird that i had to

wait so long for for an answer from whatever government in europe so we're very pleased that we're going to be the ones to on sun now very seriously because we share a lot of approaches of the french government not all of them but a lot of them and of course we want to strengthen the social aspect within the european policies and the democratic. our. points of view meet at these points now on monday the current party had all of soil it's described this upcoming grand coalition as not being a marriage of love and what kind of a marriage do you expect. well it's going to be a partnership i hope a partnership in which we argue and we don't have the same opinions all the time we have very different parties the three of them in the coalition and i think it's good for democracy that you see that we are not one big. anonymous political mass

we are three different parties with different political opinions trying to find compromises and good ways to govern this country and i think we've done that quite well within the last four years and we're willing to do it better even the next but it was a close call for your social democrat party which now so narrowly escaped what can be seen as a european trend really for social democrats parties who've lost really meaning who've been suffered crushing defeat in other countries just to mention france how will you be able to get your party base on board and convince them that yes you can completely renewed while being in what many saw is that as a busa relationship almost with chancellor merkel in this cabinet well times are tough for social democratic parties all over europe that is true but the stories are very different in the countries and i think for germany it is very important to show that we are different from the christian democrats that was something that we

didn't do good enough the last four years and to make clear that real social policy can only take place in germany with social democrats we have the the draft treaty of the jamaica so-called jamaica parties so the christian democrats with the green party and the liberals and we've seen the social aspects nearly didn't take place in this draft treaty so. i think. we have to make that very clear because germany is a very strong country it has a strong economy but there are so many people that don't participate from the wealth and in the process and that is our challenge to to really make life better for them to you know. the justice minister in the next a cabinet under the michel thank you very much for the interview thank you. thank you and without back to the studio ok michelle thanks very much katrina barly there

the incoming justice minister for the new coalition a member of the social democrats she was pointing out how the social democrats are different from the christian democrats how are they different at this point if they're going to work in coalition to achieve what they've laid down in their agreement and i have to come back to what i said earlier that they're going to try and square the circle it is going to be tremendously difficult but you know they now will have decided it was a two thirds majority of the policy that said ok we'll do it again well so some sense of responsibility will govern the country and yet at the same time will have to find a way of saving our own profile again of making it closer voters why should they even vote for the social democrats and this is going to be a tremendously difficult task i mean they're going to try and bring in new people who bring in some experience from working on the ground who bring with them some

sort of a local street credibility of like to know that even like fences got gif i who is a difficult part of a berlin from an exactly and from a difficult area where she has a lot of experience working with migrants and finding hands on solutions and so they really have to reshape that migration policy approach i think with like to remind our viewers watching special coverage of all america being elected for a fourth term as to. germany a clarification on the procedure on the america has left the parliament building is now at bellevue palace with the german president to steinmeyer where she will be a appointed she will then be returning to the parliament where she will be sworn in by the president of that chamber then oh when we heard from country in bar live there she was pointing to the a.f.p. as a challenge not only in this parliament but for german society the german electorate and we also heard from a young c.d.u. parliamentarian the youngest twenty five years old saying it's time to not ignore

the f.t. but to debate them and their ideas for so long the political elite here all along with parliamentarians have avoided this debate is it time to engage the. definitely i mean. will the tough questions. that already. we will hunt the government and whatever we have to say about the which is a right being very populist party. this is the role of the opposition and they will be the strongest opposition voice and the government will be more challenge than a just used to be in the past four years by the. and again one very important element will be migration and the government will have to answer this question even more i mean in real terms

a lot of things have changed over the past year and so as i said already the. culture of will come over in germany and especially the s.p.d. has made a lot of changes within who has indicated they are ready to make more changes meaning until migration changes over the past two three days and. fun to get fired the most experienced politician new politician the new face in the government has made that very very clear and so that the vice chairwoman for phrases and this is the thing that will that they will address to will regain some grown from the if he. tried to do that and shift to the right the social democrats don't they risk losing all that party base that was all for and wanted to see open borders a former policy that only machall was supporting as they proceed down that road is

the used base going to disappear. i don't think so i think. i would like to come to a point which is part of the answer to your question but that the a.f.p. is particularly popular. and i think we should remind international viewers that there is still a big gap between west and east germany and that the f.t. actually became the strongest polity in east germany with men so they were stronger than this city they were stronger than the s.p.d. etc so this is something where. we'll have to find out just how many people for example in east germany voted for the a. protest because they were dissatisfied with what was going on by the circle with the policies by the so-called established parties they just didn't find themselves represented and the s.p.

days moved to appoint francisco i defy is a clear symbol a signal to those voters that they're trying because she's from east germany they're going to try and hear those people again so this is something i think that will have to watch out whether or not this strategy is going to work ok what do you think this was a close vote does we heard from michelle the nine votes more than were needed to confirm her as chancellor on michael what is a presage moving forward for this coalition. well. on the american side on monday on so did. we have to move fast this is the this is the message where they try to say we did understand we have to act we have to do it fast and we'll have to see whether this whole this will play oh no this will really work in the grand coalition but but the signal clearly is we did understand you had the we've got the message and they've

got a lot of money at hand i mean so many is in isn't really. comfortable situation when it comes to tax or vengeance yeah exactly forty five billion euros that the new government can spend and the coalition treaty says quite clearly that they're trying to distribute money to all voter groups essentially to try and win back support by handing out money and those times some people are criticizing already that there is not enough in the coalition treaty to prepare me for the future to reform the labor market sector and to meet with demands that are rising up at the moment it's all about spending money and winning back voters for life and this will this money that's to be distributed the tax funds will help cement certainly the support among the public for this coalition you know certainly i mean despite all the criticism if you look at the polls most germans do support the grand coalition

that has been become very clear over the past eight to ten weeks and so old polls and you can used to board maybe on fifty percent sold there is a base for a grand coalition and the population despite all the problems that the s.p.d. obviously had and also. to a degree but. this new government can basically coned or no on the broad support within the population and is just a moves like the appointing people within the chancery full topics like digitalisation and integration just. moves like that signs that anglo machall is telling the world ok i'm going to do this i'm going to make this my very own topic ok setting those benchmarks are going to be very important moving forward that's what everyone's can be looking at things like migration infrastructure rebuilding is also a big one in the coalition agreement we're looking at images of bellevue palace

right now there are new screen that's where. the chancers arrived to be appointed by the german president frank walter steinmeier afterwards he'll be returning to the bundestag where she'll be officially sworn in later today. let's get you a recap now this is news live from berlin you're watching our special coverage as german lawmakers elected on the machall to a fourth term as chancellor merkel needed a majority of all three hundred fifty five and went and came away with three hundred sixty four out of three hundred out of six hundred eighty eight votes cast now that's just a nine vote margin of victory the chancellor is expected to be sworn in within the next hour ending almost six months of political uncertainty her conservatives emerged from last september's federal elections as the largest party but without a majority social democrats and nationally refused to continue the previous grand

coalition but following the failure of talks with two smaller parties the greens and the free democrat f.d.p. pro-business party the eventually reconsidered and that long awaited coalition deal was signed officially on monday just a few days ago now germany is finally set for a new government. and you know what do you think what it's going to be the main priority of this new government. according to the coalition treaty is your it's europe it's the chapter that's the first chapter in this coalition deal but am as we've heard from our colleague max hoffman in strasbourg it is not pretty vague those pages on europe and we know what among them mark home once we know that there are difficulties high command is traveling to paris to send out a clear signal that the germans want to act together with a friend but there is so much pressure at home. has to keep house in order as well

and to try and convince their own critics within her own party that she still got it and they did this these parties don't lose votes of support so that she can really make europe this priority that it would require a bit of what do you think do you think making europe the main priority is going to go down well with voters with a rather rather so you domestic priorities. well those are makes quite obviously re talked about as much money that is spread among so many different groups of the in germany so they a lot of people get their share so to speak so that it's a domestic part and then of course there is foreign policy and quite frankly all these big things have not really been debated except for europe. with so many challenges out there for the new german government we have stated them already

earlier on but i have to repeat it there is the most pressing topic right now is the trade war was the united states or the european integration absolutely. and that has to be dealt. not not with down the road immediately that has to be dealt with on the european level and of course germany will have to have a very important role in all of those and he or. she has made it very clear that she wants to have talks and president trump has even responded basically in a positive boy. i want to jump in just remind our viewers you're there watching special coverage of the machall being chosen as the fourth chancellor for her fourth term as chancellor here in germany by parliament we're getting live pictures there that's the bellevue palace where johnson is expected to arrive any time to be appointed by the president very we're talking about all these these challenges and

what lies ahead for the chancer in terms of the trade war i mean is there a sense in berlin that that a trade war with america could happen that german jobs in the steel industry for example in the car industry could be at risk if these tariffs are put in place. yes and politicians actually have told us that they regret that t. to the transatlantic trade deal never entered into force because of course that would have avoided terrorist being put into place and this is now a. question i don't really think that they're going to go back to renegotiate that sort of through but yes we've we see it all the time that there are very few sectors that the german economy depends on and it is it is because of course it is steel production so there's a loss of jobs at risk on those from mendis we might enter the trade then during

the american election a lot of german politicians birth their bridges to the united states by attacking dollars from but it was a candidate by not accepting them after he was sworn in over a year ago now is germany busy rebuilding those bridges to america yes i think that should be a goal and i think it already has a lot of people and within the german government reconsider the relationship between a bowl and and washington and trump and a lot of people of course say we have even we have to think even beyond donald trump you know and and rightly so i mean this is still the most important relationship that we do have also out of europe and we have to make a very strong effort to rebuild that but if the would be extremely challenging like you know with the trade wall looming but then again we have another crisis building

up and that is russia again you know the attack in great britain is something that is. directed at the great britain but it has a wider can i jump in there's the poisoning of sergei strip all exactly the russian spy who defected exactly and this is. really building up and we have we also have to find an answer to this challenge because we have we cannot neglect the british don't know projects and this is. against and and europe and also germany has to find an answer so there are a lot of challenges out there. mention turkey is very important bracks it is very important so there are a lot of things nato what will be what will happen with nato all these things have to be addressed ok thanks very much let's get to another recap now this is interview news live from berlin you're watching our special coverage just german

lawmakers elected on back to a fourth term as chancellor on a mac only did a majority of all votes five hundred fifty five to win and came away with three hundred sixty four out of six hundred eighty eight votes cast now that's just a nine vote margin of victory macro's expected to be sworn in later today and being almost six months of political uncertainty for conservatives emerged from last september's federal elections is the largest party but without a majority. social democrats initially refused to continue the previous grand coalition but they left and. now we have castle in her fourth term and many thanks now to our guests and thank you for joining us.

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